Recently, MEDIA ARTS Center San Diego, sat down with a relative of mine, Mead Kibbey, to record his story about the Invasion of Normandy in the California State Library’s Rare Book Room in Sacramento. If I’ve ever heard such a striking first-person account of Normandy I can’t remember, but this video is an amazing record of a unique moment in history. As I watched I thought about how hard that war was, and how significantly war, and the world, has changed since. And I thought about other relatives of mine, who have passed, who were there too, and wondered what they might say about it today. It’s a must-see.

Kibbey also talks about the building of the Central Pacific railroad and the railroad photography of Alfred A. Hart in another video by MACSD that you can find here. They photographs are amazing and also not to be missed.